Henry r



RRoBBINs.'

. y Stove Leg.

No. 104,771. PatentedJuneZS, 1870.

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` nanars. noBBnvs, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Letters Patent No. 104,7

71, datedlime 28, v1870.

l The Schedule referred to in these Letters Paten't and making parl of thev same.

Be it. knwwnmt `I, HENRY 1t.` Bocinas, of the city andcount-y of Baltimore,.and- State of Maryland, have-.invented a newand useful Improvement in Attac-hing Legs to `Articles of' Furniture, StovesA 85e.;

andI do hereby declare Vthat thefollowiug is a full,

clear, audexact description of the same, reference be-4 ing hadto the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which` Figure l is a sectional elevation; and i Figure 2.is a crosssection.

This invention liasfor its'object to prevent t-helegsv 'of stoves, articles of furniture, &e., fromfalling out when it isdesirabletliat the'same should stay in, as when the article is set up in the 1-oom, and, at the same time, 'tof admit of the easy renioval of the legs when it is desirable that'theyfshould be taken out, andV of the easyvrplacing of the' legs after having been removed. y, N f.

'lheinveiltion consists in the means hcreimifterdcscribed for accomplshingthis object.

In the drawing.- l nmisa section of the .bottom of any article ot' furniture;f' A c b b, lugs projecting downward from .the same and forming a dovetailed guide-way;

c, the head o f theleg, having sides beveled to -cor rcspondwith the inclined sidesof the lugs b `fd,"a chamber formed in the 'bottom a crosswiseof and above the guide-way, and open at itsA lower side;

c, a pin placed in the chamber d, and of such length as to be prevented from falling out, when the leg vvis withdrawn, bythe lugs f b, which are provided with transverse'groovescommunicating ivith the chamber d, into which grooves the pin e may fall, the head c being also provided with al corresponding transverse groove, which', when the head is in position in the guideway, forms a channel continuous with the grooves of' .the lu'gs,`fthe'v pine oeeupyingwhich channel, locks the head and lugs together and thus prevents the head from slipping out of its guide-Way, the vweight of the pin causing it to fall into the grooves in the ings and head 'as soon v'as they become continuous, and to re-v main therein until removed by the application 4of a iiner.l v' ,L .4.

is a recess formed in the back of the head c, through 4 which the operators finger passes in ,order to dislodge the pin e from the grooves in the' lugs and head, in order to the removal of the leg from the guidefway.

The .back part h of the head c is made slanting at 'its upper side, in order that, when the headis shoved into the guide-way, it may pass under the pin c -aud lift it until it falls into the grooves.V u

Instead of thepin c a ball-may be used, as .it willauswer the saine purpose. In that case a hemispherical recess would `have to beformed in .the head and lugs instead of Jche grooves. C Having thus described `'my "invention, What I claim as`new,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The bottom. a of any article of furniture "provided with the chamber d, in combination with' the pine, the grooved lugs b, and the grooved head 0, in

.the manner and for the purpose substantially as 'de- 

